Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GILDING REFINED GOLD, by FRANCIS PATRICK DONNELLY


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GILDING REFINED GOLD, by                    
First Line: At times the drifting clouds a profile trace
Last Line: By journeyings of god's eternity!
Subject(s): Gold


At times the drifting clouds a profile trace,
Fashioning freak outlines in their flimsy dew;
In such ephemeral etchings you may view
Man's folly when he carves a mountain's face.
Come, gale and rain and frost, with lovelier grace
Your rare and age-long sculpturing to renew;
Iconoclasts of orthodoxy true,
This hybrid stone-work shatter and erase!

The puny tools of man's misguided hand
Mar with his miniature a range sublime,
And dent the heights with shallow tracery.
Leave nature to the artistry of time,
To that high skill which glorifies the land
By journeyings of God's eternity!





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